http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/1920s-american-literature Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:52:06 -0400 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:52:06 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/354/the-great-gatsbys-relation-to-and-importance-as-a-work-of-art By Iulia O. Basu-Zharku - F. Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted by Matthew Bruccoli, recognized the importance of his own novel and its artistic achievements: “Gatsby was far from perfect in many ways but all in all it contains such prose as has never been written in America before. […] the lyric quality of Gatsby, its esthetic soundness” (Brucolli 221). “Its symbolism, allusion, indirection, irony, ambiguity, and mythical dimensions” (Eble 34), are eternal, transcending times and eras. And indeed, when Fitzgerald says, “I feel I have an enormous power in me now. This book will be a consciously... Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:31 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/354/the-great-gatsbys-relation-to-and-importance-as-a-work-of-art